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'Super Saturday' Barnburner: Trump 37.0%, Cruz 37.0%

With 100 percent of the precincts reporting in Saturday’s four GOP presidential contests, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz were separated by only 234 votes (out of a total of 622,579 cast), as Trump got 230,443 votes to Cruz's 230,209. The candidates' respective percentages of the vote on "Super Saturday" were as follows: Trump, 37.0 percent; Cruz, 37.0 percent; Marco Rubio, 13.7 percent; and John Kasich, 10.0 percent.

While Trump beat Cruz by 234 votes on the night, Cruz beat Rubio by 145,145, and Rubio beat Kasich by 22,510.

Cruz won Kansas and Maine, while Trump won Kentucky and Louisiana. Where they didn't win, each was the runner-up. Rubio finished fourth in Maine and third in each of the other three states, with Kasich notching a third-place finish in Maine.